HELP ME: I am actually enjoying FFXIII

Solid Snake · 06-11-2012, 01:25 AM

Note that there is no "-2" at the end of the aforementioned statement.

...For the hell of it, I decided to start FFXIII during a study break today.
* Technically, I actually played through the first two chapters of the story when I first procured my PS3 in 2010, but I had virtually no memory of that experience aside from being confused as fuck because I didn't understand what was going on. And then I started playing Uncharted and quickly forgot that FFXIII even existed. So when I decided to pick it back up today I chose to start from the beginning.

I am actually enjoying this experience.
Mind you, FFXIII is by no means a great game. It is linear as fuck corridor hopping. But the graphics are delightful, the music is solid, and perhaps most surprisingly, I'm actually growing to care about the characters, to a far greater extent than I cared about the cast most Square Enix games released in the past decade.
Seriously during one of the Snow / Serah flashbacks it actually occurred to me that Snow and Serah might be the best written romance in Final Fantasy. Not that Squall and Rinoa could give them much competition, but that was still surprising.

...Everyone except Hope. Hope's still fucking annoying.

I've been practically raised by the internet to hate FFXIII before I even gave it a fair shake. And now that I'm actually giving the game a fair shake, I'm enjoying it! No, it's not the best RPG I've played this year, or even the best RPG I've played in the past two months (Tales of Graces wins that award), but the script is decent for a Final Fantasy, the graphics and character models are gorgeous, the baby chocobo is the cutest thing in the known universe, I really like at least three of the playable characters, and the linear corridor thing, while annoying, really doesn't strike me as that much different than the formula of pretty pre-rendered graphical backgrounds and linear activities utilized in the Uncharted series, which every pundit universally lauds.

It's better than FFXII, that's for sure.
...And now everyone on the internet wants to kill me.

THIS TOPIC IS NOW ABOUT: Games conventional wisdom on the interwebs says you're supposed to hate, that you actually secretly really kind of like.
Also I'm starting Chapter 6 of FFXIII right now, so let's keep spoilers contained in those spoiler boxes.

Another extremely controversial opinion of mine: I actually enjoyed L.A. Noire more than Red Dead Redemption.
*runs*
...In that case it was less about the objective quality of either title and more about my eternal love for the Film Noir genre, jazz, and the 1940s.

06-11-2012, 01:25 AM	#1
Solid Snake Erotic Esquire Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 5,563	HELP ME: I am actually enjoying FFXIII Note that there is no "-2" at the end of the aforementioned statement. ...For the hell of it, I decided to start FFXIII during a study break today. * Technically, I actually played through the first two chapters of the story when I first procured my PS3 in 2010, but I had virtually no memory of that experience aside from being confused as fuck because I didn't understand what was going on. And then I started playing Uncharted and quickly forgot that FFXIII even existed. So when I decided to pick it back up today I chose to start from the beginning. *I am actually enjoying this experience.* Mind you, FFXIII is by no means a great game. It is linear as fuck corridor hopping. But the graphics are delightful, the music is solid, and perhaps most surprisingly, I'm actually growing to care about the characters, to a far greater extent than I cared about the cast most Square Enix games released in the past decade. Seriously during one of the Snow / Serah flashbacks it actually occurred to me that Snow and Serah might be the best written romance in Final Fantasy. Not that Squall and Rinoa could give them much competition, but that was still surprising. ...Everyone except Hope. Hope's still fucking annoying. I've been practically raised by the internet to hate FFXIII before I even gave it a fair shake. And now that I'm actually giving the game a fair shake, I'm enjoying it! No, it's not the best RPG I've played this year, or even the best RPG I've played in the past two months (Tales of Graces wins that award), but the script is decent for a Final Fantasy, the graphics and character models are gorgeous, the baby chocobo is the cutest thing in the known universe, I really like at least three of the playable characters, and the linear corridor thing, while annoying, really doesn't strike me as that much different than the formula of pretty pre-rendered graphical backgrounds and linear activities utilized in the Uncharted series, which every pundit universally lauds. It's better than FFXII, that's for sure. ...And now *everyone on the internet wants to kill me.* THIS TOPIC IS NOW ABOUT: Games conventional wisdom on the interwebs says you're supposed to hate, that you actually secretly really kind of like. Also I'm starting Chapter 6 of FFXIII right now, so let's keep spoilers contained in those spoiler boxes. Another extremely controversial opinion of mine: I actually enjoyed L.A. Noire more than Red Dead Redemption. *runs* ...In that case it was less about the objective quality of either title and more about my eternal love for the Film Noir genre, jazz, and the 1940s. __________________ *WARNING:* Snek's all up in this thread. Be prepared to read massive walls of text.